Sir Stirling Moss was one of the founding patrons of the Festival of Speed, and a regular competitor at the Revival.
Leading women of business, sport, fashion and media, take part in one of the most exciting horseracing events in the world.
One Summer, King Edward VII turned his back on the traditional morning suit, and donned a linen suit and Panama hat. Thus the Glorious Goodwood trend was born.
Testament to the 19th-century fascination with ancient Egypt and decorative opulence. The room is richly detailed with gilded cartouches, sphinxes, birds and crocodiles.
Testament to the 19th-century fascination with ancient Egypt and decorative opulence. The room is richly detailed with gilded cartouches, sphinxes, birds and crocodiles.
Testament to the 19th-century fascination with ancient Egypt and decorative opulence. The room is richly detailed with gilded cartouches, sphinxes, birds and crocodiles.
From 2005 to present there has been a demonstration area for the rally cars at the top of the hill
Mattresses and eiderdowns are stuffed with wool from the Goodwood Estate.
Our gin uses wild-grown botanicals sourced from the estate, and is distilled with mineral water naturally chalk-filtered through the South Downs.
Found on the lawn at FOS is the finest concours d'elegance in the world, where the most beautiful cars are presented
Spectate from the chicane at the Revival to see plenty of classic cars going sideways as they exit this infamous point of our Motor Circuit.
Goodwood Motor Circuit was officially opened in September 1948 when Freddie March, the 9th Duke and renowned amateur racer, tore around the track in a Bristol 400
For the last two years, 5,800 bales have been recylced into the biomass energy centre to be used for energy generation
Easy boy! The charismatic Farnham Flyer loved to celebrate every win with a pint of beer. His Boxer dog, Grogger, did too and had a tendancy to steal sips straight from the glass.
From 2005 to present there has been a demonstration area for the rally cars at the top of the hill
FOS Favourite Mad Mike Whiddett can be caught melting tyres in his incredible collection of cars (and trucks) up the hillclimb
The red & yellow of the Racecourse can be traced back hundreds of years, even captured in our stunning Stubbs paintings in the Goodwood Collection
The first ever horsebox was used from Goodwood to Doncaster for the 1836 St. Leger. Elis arrived fresh and easily won his owner a £12k bet.
Whoa Simon! A horse so determined and headstrong, he not only won the 1883 Goodwood Cup by 20 lengths, but couldn't be stopped and carried on running over the top of Trundle hill
Leading women of business, sport, fashion and media, take part in one of the most exciting horseracing events in the world.
Whoa Simon! A horse so determined and headstrong, he not only won the 1883 Goodwood Cup by 20 lengths, but couldn't be stopped and carried on running over the top of Trundle hill
One Summer, King Edward VII turned his back on the traditional morning suit, and donned a linen suit and Panama hat. Thus the Glorious Goodwood trend was born.
The first ever horsebox was used from Goodwood to Doncaster for the 1836 St. Leger. Elis arrived fresh and easily won his owner a £12k bet.
Future Lab is Goodwood's innovation pavilion, inspiring industry enthusiasts and future scientists with dynamic tech
One of the greatest golfers of all time, James Braid designed Goodwood’s iconic Downland course, opened in 1914.
The Motor Circuit was known as RAF Westhampnett, active from 1940 to 1946 as a Battle of Britain station.
A 20m woodland rue, from Halnaker to Lavant, was planted by our forestry teams & volunteers, featuring native species like oak, beech, & hornbeam
The first ever round of golf played at Goodwood was in 1914 when the 6th Duke of Richmond opened the course on the Downs above Goodwood House.
The first ever round of golf played at Goodwood was in 1914 when the 6th Duke of Richmond opened the course on the Downs above Goodwood House.
The famous fighter ace, who flew his last sortie from Goodwood Aerodrome, formerly RAF Westhampnett has a statue in his honor within the airfield.
Ray Hanna famously flew straight down Goodwood’s pit straight below the height of the grandstands at the first Revival in 1998
The first thing ever dropped at Goodwood was a cuddly elephant which landed in 1932 just as the 9th Duke of Richmonds passion for flying was taking off.
David Edney, head Butler dons a morning suit "and a smile" every day and has been woking at Goodwood for over 25 years!
Built in 1787 by celebrated architect James Wyatt to house the third Duke of Richmond’s prized fox hounds, The Kennels was known as one of the most luxurious dog houses in the world!
Ensure you take a little time out together to pause and take in the celebration of all the hard work you put in will be a treasured memory.
The red & yellow of the Racecourse can be traced back hundreds of years, even captured in our stunning Stubbs paintings in the Goodwood Collection
We have been host to many incredible film crews using Goodwood as a backdrop for shows like Downton Abbey, Hollywood Blockbusters like Venom: let there be Carnage and the Man from U.N.C.L.E.
We have been host to many incredible film crews using Goodwood as a backdrop for shows like Downton Abbey, Hollywood Blockbusters like Venom: let there be Carnage and the Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The first thing ever dropped at Goodwood was a cuddly elephant which landed in 1932 just as the 9th Duke of Richmonds passion for flying was taking off.
The first thing ever dropped at Goodwood was a cuddly elephant which landed in 1932 just as the 9th Duke of Richmonds passion for flying was taking off.
Built in 1787 by celebrated architect James Wyatt to house the third Duke of Richmond’s prized fox hounds, The Kennels was known as one of the most luxurious dog houses in the world!
Our gin uses wild-grown botanicals sourced from the estate, and is distilled with mineral water naturally chalk-filtered through the South Downs.
With vehicle brainware technology making it possible to pilot a car using mind control, could these advances enable people with disabilities to get back behind the wheel?
Since its inception in the 1880s, the motor car has evolved from a machine that had to be cranked up by hand to a highly computerised technical marvel that can even be driven au-tonomously – an idea that for most of us, conjures images of commuters pootling around cit-ies at 20mph in boring pods. For racing drivers with disabilities, however, rapid technological advances offer the exciting prospect of driving again. Welcome to the world of motorsport where the cars are controlled not by throttle and brake pedals, but by cameras, sensors and multi-million-pound electronics systems, which can interpret signals from everything ranging from eye movement to the brain’s neurons.
Sam Schmidt, a 56-year-old American racing driver, was left a paraplegic after a 210mph crash in 2000. In 2017 he teamed up with Arrow Electronics, a Fortune 500 company, to turn a Chevrolet Corvette into a sophisticated and very fast computer, with a million dollars’ worth of cameras and sensors on board – in what has been described as semi-autonomous driving. Acceleration is caused by Schmidt blowing through a tube with sensors, braking by sucking. Sensors mitigate any unforeseen surges to the system, such as sneezing. Steering is con-trolled by a special pair of sunglasses Schmidt wears which translate eye movement into di-rection. Using this system, Schmidt has stormed up Pikes Peak at race speeds, although he says that’s the only time the blow-and-suck system came undone – due to breathlessness caused by the high altitude of the course.
The next step, neural control, has been toyed with for a few years now. “Brainware technolo-gy” is where a driver controls the car with his or her mind. The car’s tech picks up on neural signals near the surface of your brain, runs the signals at lightning speed through algorithms and turns it into movement. Essentially, the system learns your brain’s baseline mapping, then recognises a move away from that to your brain focusing on a task, and turns that into an output, such as forward movement of the car. In 2017, technology created by San Fran-cisco-based bioinformatics company, Emotiv, enabled a quadriplegic man, Rodrigo Hübner Mendes, to become the first person to pilot a Formula One car using the power of his mind alone. Mendes drove the car around a track in Brazil using an Emotiv-designed on-board computer that translated his thoughts into commands in the vehicle. “To accelerate, I thought that I was celebrating a soccer goal,” Mendes explains. “To turn right, I thought that I was eat-ing a delicious food.”
The question is, what tangible benefits do neural, voice and eye control promise for motor-sport? Nathalie McGloin, President of the FIA Disability and Accessibility Commission, and a tetraplegic racing driver, thinks the potential is huge. “Currently, most disabled drivers who drive with hand controls will not have authority over gear changes and leave the car in drive. The development of autonomous vehicle technology could allow disabled people to use pad-dle shifters via voice control, for example. This technology could also give disabled racers more choice when it comes to adapting competition cars.” The wider opportunity is to get disabled people back behind the wheel. “This would be a huge breakthrough,” says McGloin. “Independence, whatever form that takes, means so much to disabled people”.
As Schmidt says: “If you can dream it, find the right people, find the right resources, and it can be done. It’s cool stuff.” Likewise, Tan Le, founder of Emotiv, describes watching Mendes’s drive as “incredible… I grew up loving Star Wars, so the idea of moving an object with my mind is already the stuff of science fiction and stuff of fantasy. That alone is cool. But driving a Formula One car? That takes it to another level!”
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